Sales Representative (Medical and Pharmaceutical Products) (ANZSCO 225412)
On the Regional Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List
From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.
Which lists is Sales Representative (Medical and Pharmaceutical Products) on?
ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.
CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.
Visas this occupation can access
Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).
- Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) — Temporary, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 482
- Employer Nomination Scheme visa (subclass 186) — Permanent, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 186
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Sales Representative (Medical and Pharmaceutical Products) comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Sales Representative (Medical and Pharmaceutical Products) sits on ROL and CSOL, reaching three visa subclasses — employer nomination, Skills in Demand sponsorship and skilled employer sponsored regional — the same reach as its industrial-products sibling and half the reach of the nec code beside both of them. Its accepted field of study is the medical and pharmaceutical equivalent of that sibling's: "medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, podiatry" plus Marketing. Its own page excludes Sales Representative (Industrial Products), Technical Sales Representatives nec and ICT Sales Representative by name.
Where these applications come unstuck
The same visa-reach inversion documented for the industrial-products sibling applies here: Technical Sales Representatives nec reaches six subclasses against this code's three, purely because it additionally carries STSOL. VETASSESS's own suitable and excluded lists confirm the two named sales-representative codes and the nec catch-all are three genuinely separate occupations, not a hierarchy — an applicant selling medical or pharmaceutical products cannot simply switch to the nec code for a wider visa reach unless their actual products genuinely fall outside this code's own field.
An honest read on this pathway
The medically-tied field of study — medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing or podiatry, plus marketing — is specific enough that a general business or marketing degree alone may not clear the highly-relevant-field bar without matching product exposure. Applicants should also note that this code's accepted field is the near-mirror image of its industrial-products sibling's, so evidence built for one does not transfer to the other even though both sit on identical visa lists.
VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.
Talk it through with a registered agent
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